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Airborne Express Adds

Ocean Transport To

Customer Options

Airborne Express announced the introduction of ocean transportation to its international service package, giving customers more options and greater savings for less time-sensi- tive shipments. Responding to an evolving shipper requirement for single-source transportation solu- tions, Airborne now provides cus- tomized shipping strategies by air, land or sea to the more than 200 countries it serves. "Airborne can now provide ser- vice to companies that want flexibil- ity of an air and ocean option under one roof," said Jack Cella,

Airborne's executive vice president, international. The new ocean divi- sion will be headed byCharles Ogle, a former Sea-Land executive with more than 19 years of international ocean shipping experience.

Airborne is establishing its own

Non-Vessel Operating Cargo Car- rier (NVOCC) and filing a tariff with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to be effective by mid-April 1994. The new service will provide an array of ocean services including

Less-than-Container-Load (LCL),

Full-Container-Load (FCL), and turnkey project transportation pack- ages all fully supported by Airborne's sophisticated FOCUS information system.

Hong Kong To Build First

Terminal Handling Pearl

River Delta Cargo

Hong Kong is to build its first terminal designed to handle Pearl

River Delta cargo, the Hong Kong government said. According to a statement issued by the Informa- tion Services Department, the river trade terminal will be part of the territory's massive new port project which will provide up to 24 new container berths by 2011. Plans call for the terminal to be built at Tuen

Mun in the New Territories, to the west of the busy Ma Wan Channel and northwest of the proposed new container port on Lantau Island, the biggest outlying island in Hong

Kong.

It will be built and operated by private enterprise with the first phase projected for completion by late 1997. Rapid growth in river trade between Hong Kong and China is projected by the Port Develop- ment Board. It said 20.7 million tons of freight carried by river last year will double by 2001 and qua- druple by 2011.

Avondale Wins Preliminary

NAVSEA Design Contract

NAVSEA recently announced the award of contracts to Avondale In- dustries Inc. and four other ship-

Maritime Reform (Continued, from page 25) mid-June 1993 that without sub- sidy reform, some of their vessels would have to be re-flagged and re- crewed — which might cause the loss of up to 500jobs, as well as allow the owner to refuse emergency De- fense Department use of the ves- sels. To pay for the ship subsidiza- yards for preliminary design stud- ies on the LX (LPD 17) ship. Ex- pected to last approximately one year, the contract amounts to $480,000.

The construction program for the

LPD 17 is expected to be a multi- ship project, with the first contract for construction expected by around 1996.

Current plans call for 12 of the vessels to be constructed, to ad- dress a major obsolescence problem expected to be caused by the decom- missioning of more than 30 Navy amphibious ships in the next 10 years.

Avondale is a leader in marine fabrication. In addition to ship- building capabilities, the company specializes in boat construction and is a major repair contractor for com- mercial and Navy ships.

For more information on

Avondale,

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PROPULSION UPDATE

Detroit Diesel And Volvo Penta

Announce U.S. Agreement

DETROIT DIESEL

Detroit Diesel Corporation and

Volvo Penta announced a new stra- tegic North American business agreement.

Detroit Diesel has become the exclusive distributor for Volvo

Penta's Compact Collection and 61- 162 Series marine diesel engines and service parts in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Engines and parts will continue to be sold under the Volvo

Penta name. As part of the agree- ment, Volvo Penta will gain access to Detroit Diesel's North American distribution network to market in- board marine diesels. These en- gines will also provide a natural complement to the range of larger units produced by Detroit Diesel.

The Volvo Penta marine diesel engine line includes the Compact

Collection engines, ranging from 10- to 80-hp, and the 61-162 Series, which provide up to 612 hp. Detroit

Diesel will also work with Volvo

Penta of the Americas in select mar- kets to distribute the Volvo Penta 31-42 Series marine diesel engine product line. Select Detroit Diesel distributors throughout North

America will sell and service the

Volvo Penta marine diesel engines.

Service parts for the Volvo Penta engines will be distributed from

Detroit Diesel Corporation's 575,000-sq.-ft. Parts Distribution

Warehouse in Canton,

Ohio. The Detroit Die- sel Parts Distribution

Warehouse is capable of shipping parts world- wide 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. "The pri- mary purpose of this agreement With Detroit

Diesel Corporation," ac- cording to Lennart

Hammarstrom, presi-

Volvo Penta's TAMD 72.

CORPORATION dent and CEO of Volvo Penta of the

Americas, "is to enable Volvo Penta to expand our regionally strong marine diesel distribution much more rapidly throughout NAFTA."

Volvo Penta has supplied engines to hundreds of thousands of leisure and commercial craft owners since the early 1950s, as well as to indus- trial users. The U.S. Navy is one of the company's largest customers.

Detroit Diesel Corp. provides marine diesel power up to 2,400-hp for yachts, patrol boats, ferry boats, tug boats, supply vessels and sport fishing boats. The company is en- gaged in the design, manufacture, sale and service of heavy-duty die- sel and alternative fuel engines and engine parts and offers a complete line of heavy-duty engines ranging from five- to 2,500-hp. These in- clude the Perkins line of engines, which complements those manu- factured by Detroit Diesel.

For more information on Detroit

Diesel,

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For more information on Volvo

Penta,

Circle 40 on Reader Service Card tion, tonnage fees for the first five entries a foreign vessel makes into the U.S from Western Hemisphere ports would be increased from $0.09 per net registered tonnage (NRT) to $0.15. Fees for foreign vessels en- tering U.S. ports from other foreign areas will be increased from $0.27 to $0.44 per NRT. The U.S. deep-sea merchant fleet is down to about 160 ships, employing some 27,000 civil- ian U.S. seafarers. n i i i i i i i i

TH0RD0N

BEARINGS ARE

AVAILABLE

THROUGH THESE

TH0RD0N

DISTRIBUTORS

The Charles Lowe Company 1400 Park Avenue

Emeryville, CALIFORNIA 94608-0445

Telephone: (510) 652-5900

Telefax: (510) 652-5387

Pacific Marine & Industrial 2005 Palo Verde Avenue, Suite 112

Long Beach, CAUFORNIA 90815

Telephone: (800) 248-5579

Coppedge Marine Inc. 49/2 River Point Road, P.O. Box 5636

Jacksonville, FLORIDA 32207

Telephone: (904) 398-9586

Telefax: (904) 398-0373

Maguire Bearing Co. 1919 Hau Street

Honolulu, HAWAII 96819

Telephone: (808) 847-3531

Telefax: (808) 842-4889

Marine Industries Corp. 601 East Riverside Drive

Clarksville, INDIANA 47130

Telephone: (800) 733-3130

Telefax: (812) 283-9628

Marine Industries Corp. (Gulf) 306 Driftwood Circle

Slidell, LOUISIANA 70458

Telephone: 1504) 649-9327

Telefax: (504) 643-0668

Johnson Packings &

Industrial Products, Inc.

One Industrial Way, Unit 9

Portland, MAINE 04103

Telephone: (207) 797-9212

Telefax: (207) 797-9158 n

Johnson Packings &

Industrial Products, Inc. 1434 Memorial Avenue, West Springfield

MASSACHUSETTS 01089

Telephone: (413) 733-7861

Telefax: (413) 732-2210

Argo International 10661 North Lombard Street

Portland, OREGON 97203

Telephone: (503) 286-8326

Telefax: (503) 286-8723

Hampton Sales Inc.

P.O. Box 492, 361B North York Road

WiUow Grove, PENNSYLVANIA 19090

Telephone: (215) 784-0390

Telefax: (215) 784-0392

Pacific Marine Equipment Inc. 3441 Thomdyke Ave. W.,

Seattle, WASHINGTON 98119

Telephone: (206) 281-7082

Telefax: (206) 285-9101

Pacific Propulsion (Canada) Ltd. 1451 Chartwell Drive, W. Vancouver

BRITISH COLUMBIA V7S 2R9

Telephone: (604) 988-2299

Telefax: (604) 922-4451

Avalon Marine Ltd. 44 Coventry Lane

Dartmouth, NOVA SCOTIA B2V2K2

Telephone: (902) 456-1381

Telefax: (902) 462-1004

H.P.P.D.L. Inc. 9653 Clement Street

Lasalle, QUEBEC H8R 4B4

Telephone: (514) 364-0808

Telefax: (514) 364-0454

For International Distributors - Contact

Thordon Bearings Inc. 3225 Mainway Drive

Burlington, ONTARIO L7M 1A6

Telephone: (905) 335-1440

Telefax: (905) 335-4033

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